We live in a small town, Haw River ...Pop 2500 and our "Town Council"
is trying to pass an ordinance saying that we can only have 3 dogs
per household. (It started at 2)..some ofus have more than 3 and we have
alot of rescuegroups. The shelter is in our town,(run by the city of
Burlington) is overpopulated now, and is used by at least 3 cities, also
the county. The county(Alamance) has a contract with Carolina
Biological lab selling live and dead animals from the shelter. We have
proof of this, as the city gave us a paper saying they made $9000 for
dogs.... from July of last year to May of this year..they wouldn't tell us
how much per or how many...

The kicker is the town sends a newsletter out every month with the
"Happenings" This months cover story was that the Towns new "Spay and
Neuter" clinic was open for business...and that the shelter had taken in
over 9000 animals last year. Now think about this....We were told that
6000 wereeuthanized...and that 1000 were adopted..what happened to
the other 2000? also they were going to try and up the adoption
rate...How??

If they pass this ordinance, they kill more (for profit) to make room
for ours (we get 90 days to comply)and then what? Ours go down too....
We started a petition, have contacted the AKC,(they are supposed to
show)..and were wonderingwhat other ideas you might have to stop this
madness...Thank you for taking the time to read thisC Haith stevenhaith@att.net